ART OF HOSTING
NETHERLANDS
U P C O M I N G T R A I N I N G S
Art of Harvesting
Societal Transformations
Training
13-14 May, 2025
@de Poort, Groesbeek
"How can we harvest the essence of what matters in a way that moves us towards wiser actions in these times of chaos & disruption?"
WHY HARVESTING?
Harvesting is more than collecting notes or capturing decisions. It’s about creating meaning by surfacing patterns, making sense of what unfolds in the moment, and transforming insights into actions that resonate. It is the bridge between what happens in the room and how we carry it forward into the world.
When we harvest with intention, we deepen our collective understanding and make room for wiser actions. Harvesting is about making tangible the thinking, the meaning making and the learning of a participatory process. This training offers a space to see the whole learning ecology and to develop practical skills while exploring the art of sensing, seeing, and embodying the stories and realities that emerge in our work.
In this training, we will:
(Re)Discover the Purpose of Harvesting
Why do we harvest, and what shapes the quality of our harvests?
Engage with Practical Tools
Learn participatory methods like visual and story harvesting, and create collective, tangible outcomes that hold depth and clarity.
Deepen into the Intangible
Practice sensing the unspoken—what is alive in the pauses, the subtleties of movement, and the dynamics of space and power.
Embody Harvesting
Explore embodiment as a tool for harvesting, giving voice to what words cannot fully capture.
Play with Polarities
Balance tradition and innovation, structure and emergence, precision and creativity in the art of harvesting.
We invite you to join us for a two-day immersive training in The Art of Harvesting, a practice rooted in the Art of Hosting and designed to bring depth, clarity, and wisdom to our work in conversations, collaborations, and beyond. Together, we will explore what it means to harvest not only the tangible outputs of our collective interactions but also the intangible, subtle layers that often hold the deepest truths.
WHO IS THIS FOR?
This training is for anyone who works with groups, hosts conversations, or seeks to make sense of complexity — leaders, facilitators, change agents, and those curious about the deeper layers of meaning-making.
It is a great integration for anyone who has previously attended an "Art of hosting / Art of Participatory Leadership" 3 days training.
By the end of these two days, you will have:
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New skills and practices for harvesting both individually and collectively.
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Tools to harvest in ways that honor the full reality of a room—including the edges, silences, and unseen stories.
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Clarity on how to create meaningful harvests that inspire wiser actions.
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A renewed understanding of harvesting as an embodied practice that invites curiosity, generosity, and connection.
Art of Hosting
Societal Transformations Training
25-27 November, 2025
@de Poort, Groesbeek
The Art of Hosting / Participatory Leadership is a response to our global complexity, at a time when institutions and democracies themselves are failing to address the increasing chaos and disruption in our world. It is a testing ground for those seeking to find new effective and healthy patterns for organising, innovating and interacting to create new forms that serve us all better.
The annual training that we have been hosting in the Netherlands since many years, is fully participatory to allow participants to experience methods, models and practices.
WHO IS THIS FOR?
This training is for people who are:
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ready to step into their passionate & edgy work holding the seed of a new idea for innovation;
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eager to bring new life to a project, initiative or vision and are looking for ways to do it collaboratively;
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new, emerging leaders and are asking HOW to make inclusive decisions, create a horizontal work culture;
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already hosting emerging movements, networks or systemic change initiatives and asking how to deepen them, make them sustainable or scale them up.
WE INVITE YOU!
Social entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, professionals, decision-makers and teams, managers within municipalities, NGO and development workers, community leaders and program managers, corporate innovators and consultants, convenors of cross-sector dialogues. educators, creative souls & artists.
It will be an opportunity to learn and connect with others who are practicing participation, leading change, innovation and system transformation in The Netherlands, Europe and worldwide.
WHAT WILL YOU LEARN?
Together we will explore new perspectives, tools and practical ways of engaging a diverse group of people to discover new ideas and solutions by working generatively with complexity, conflict and emergence.
Specifically you will learn how to:
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Engage in hands-on, practice based training during these days
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Design collaborative initiatives and projects for teams, groups, communities
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Host meaningful conversations and harvest actionable insights
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Apply Art of Participatory Leadership methods to your projects and challenges (such as World Cafe, Open Space Technology, Circle Practice… )
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Leverage models for working with complexity, conflict and emergence
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Translate your ideas and seeds of innovation into experiments and initiatives
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Introduce the benefits of participatory leadership to your own field
"How can we grow our individual and collective capacity to co-create spaces for transformation in these times of chaos & disruption?"
The Art of Hosting (Participatory Leadership) offers the awareness and practices necessary to face complexity as we transition between paradigms and collaboratively create new ways of organising towards new regenerative futures.
We live in times of multi-level, interconnected crisis. We are experiencing these crisis both at local & global levels due to unsustainable practices that lead to loss of biodiversity and ecological degradation. Each of us is impacted, whether we face changes in our organisations, families or communities.
The status quo is no longer an option. This leads to climate denial, continuation of extraction and colonial practices, and ‘hero’ style leadership that does not serve the times we are living.
This level of complexity is inviting each of us to cultivate:
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new ways of perceiving that enables us to operate from a new worldview;
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new skills that allows us to grow into relating and connecting differently;
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new collaborative approaches where solutions are discovered through trans-disciplinary and collective means.
Many of us are already involved in the search of discovering regenerative futures.
We know that the urgency and imperative we are experiencing in our different contexts, is inviting us to embrace the complexity in these challenges, learn and move to new levels of living and working.
SOME OF THE QUESTIONS WE EXPLORE ARE:
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How do we become aware that our current worldview might be what is blocking us and how do we learn a new one?
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How do we move beyond the ‘hero’ image of a leader and the individualism that many of us live in?
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How do we learn collaborative skills such as listening, sensing, discerning?
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How do we create the conditions for more participative societies to arise?
The registrations for this training will open soon, meanwhile please register your interest below!